Published at Frieze.com, January 2006
Despite Shanghai’s leading economic role, Beijing is still China’s political and cultural centre. As capitalism thrives, and state paternalism continues, artists juggle the pitfalls of exoticism and international success. Waling Boers and Pi Li discuss the rapidly changing scene of the Chinese capital.
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Waling Boers
Curator, writer and founding Director of BuroFriedrich-Berlin and [...]

Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, March 2006
The Haudenschild Collection focuses solely on the media of photography and video. In this respect, it is unique among the increasing number of collections of contemporary art from China. Starting in the late 1990s, Eloisa and Chris Haudenschild travelled regularly to China and slowly acquainted themselves with local [...]

San Diego Union Tribune, November 2003
It’s a salutary sign of the times: You know artistic freedom is palpable in China when its artists can toy with culture’s icons. That’s surely the case with Zhao Bandi’s photograph of himself in a tux, his face tense and his hand on the paw of a panda (of the [...]

Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
Photography became art again in China in the late 1970s and 1980s. Whereas this visual technology was largely reduced to a propaganda tool during the first thirty years of the People’s Republic, it reconnected with individual expression after the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) was over. The April Photographic Society [...]

Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
Contemporary art in China reflects the country’s rising influence as an economic, political and cultural force in the global arena. Chinese artists are gaining international recognition for their potent artworks that address a rapidly changing society; influenced by Western ideals and art practice, their creative production nevertheless remains [...]

EuroBiz Magazine, April 2006
In Shanghai, around 40 modern art galleries have sprung up in the past year. The boom follows predictions of art connoisseurs and collectors that Chinese contemporary art will leap in price in the next few years, fuelled primarily by the growing Chinese economy and the recent influx of local buyers entering the [...]